Croatia

Main projects of the Association are:  "Mjesto za sve"  - The main objective of the project is to strengthen the role, capacity and cooperation of civil society organizations in providing innovative social services for ethnic minorities in the area of Osijek-Baranja County  and Vukovar-Srijem County. "From Foster to Prosper" - The main objective of the project is to ensure active social inclusion of young people from foster homes by promoting participation in the labor market and to promote social cohesion and equal opportunities of all young people through adequate efficient social protection systems and social inclusion policies.Center for cultural activities is a partner on the project  to Open media group as an applicant of the project. "Gelem, Gelem" - The project aim is to contribute to the improvement of the level of human rights protection in Croatia, to ensure effective implementation of the EU human rights protection standards, eventually leading to overall social development of Croatia and the fulfilment of the EU 2020 strategic goals regarding Roma inclusion and the Croatian National Roma Inclusion Strategy from 2013 to 2020. Center for cultural activities is a partner on the project  to Open media group as an applicant of the project. Minority 3D - Diversity, Dialogue, Development" - The aim of the project is to encourage active citizenship by emphasizing the everyday problems that prevent minorities to participate equally in community activities.

The Center for Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue (CEMD) is an independent, non-profit, organization based in Zagreb, Croatia, focused on promoting, developing and improving intercultural dialogue, human rights, education, regional and international cooperation. Croatia’s leading forum for debates, CEMD excels in in-house research on a wide range of policy areas, from justice and security, to foreign policy and international cooperation.

Over the years, the Center for Movement has collaborated with various organizations, both in Croatia and internationally. Some of those are: Domino (Queer Zagreb) , Croatian Institute for Dance and Movement (Dance Week Festival), Multimedia Cultural Center Split, INTEATRO Teatro Stabile d’innovazione Ancona (Italia), Cinedance (Festival of dance, film and video), OOUR (Zagreb), Nomad Dance Academy.
Main activities:
The Center for Movement’s annual programmes comprise a programme of contemporary and independent theatre, dance projects and performances , film and video programmes; workshops, panel discussions, round tables, lectures, committed programmes, film and video projects, creating new gay culture, education and art-related contents.
XONTAKT project for sustainable independent theatre
XONTAKT DFV dance film and video
SHOLA IN MOTUS dance project in collaboration with high schools in Split
CROSS GENDER Platform for gender bender art and theatre (QUEER SPLIT) in collaboration with QueerZagreb (Zagreb)
NOMAD DANCE ACADEMY NDA is a platform for collaboration in contemporary dance, systematic process designed to establish a strong, recognizable, unique Balkan contemporary dance scene, which is professional, socially relevant and influential, open and connected, in collaboration with TALA (Zagreb)
Sources of funding: local public bodies - City of Split ; Split Dalmatia County, national public bodies - Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, other: Italian Institute for Culture, Austrian Cultural Forum, Croatian Audiovisual Center, French Embassy, Italian Embassy.

Upgrade!Zagreb, node of the Upgrade!International network for promoting new media arts, http://upgrade.wowm.org ;
AV_City_Face_series – audio-video workshops for young people of age from 15-25 years, based on FLOSS.

The Center achieves its mission through the following activities and goals: • fundamental scientific research projects • introduction of the gender perspective into education • participation in women’s studies programs in the region/Europe/world • offering a variety of expert knowledge (educational services for women’s organizations, state bodies for implementation of equality, political parties) • publishing (printing of scientific journals, books and women’s studies textbooks, developing specifically oriented libraries) The Center continuously works on: • education on women's issues • promoting women's studies programs at the university • studying female subjectivity, women's history and culture, gender/sex, power and knowledge • taking up new issues relating to women (citizenship, the concept of the female citizen, the politics of reproduction, etc.) • affirming gender conscious politics from a critical feminist perspective • transforming the social status of women with an emphasis on women's rights • promoting and supporting women's culture and knowledge through research, publishing and public events • raising consciousness of historical, civilizational and anthropological values of women • developing a culture of dialogue and a non-violent culture of living

PROFFESIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES Person Centered Planning Budgeting (handling money) Self-determination and Self-Advocacy Work activities and Supported Employment Active Support Gentle teaching Community based housing Psychosocial rehabilitation and work in the community It also provides personal assistant course for people with intellectual disabilities which is the one of its kind in Croatia and is approved by the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports.

The specificity of our association is that we unite the following dimensions: human, peacekeeping, feminist and civile. In recent years, we mostly work on gender inequality and struggle against violence against women, increasing the visibility of LGBT people, reducing discrimination, working with youth on human rights, focusing on women's and LGBT human rights and women's reproductive rights. The program against violence against women formally started in 2005, although many years before that we worked actively to advocate for addressing the problems of lack of quality support for women and provide them with direct assistance. Within the program, we have established and built capacities of The safe house of Istria and have built inter-sectoral cooperation among the competent services, institutions and CSOs, and now we are focusing our activities on advocacy for creation support for re-socialization and reintegration of women after leaving violence (housing care, employment and childcare support), education of youth and the public on all types of violence against women and advocating for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. In the program area of promotion and protection of human rights, we focus on providing free legal aid services and direct protection to citizens. CGI volunteers provide direct protection as well as free legal aid and we are the contact point of the Office of the Ombudsman. We work with users regardless of funding, because we believe that the level of human rights protection in the community / society is directly related to the most vulnerable individuals. The program area of democratization and active citizenship is aimed at strengthening the capacities of various institutional advisory bodies, with executive and representative bodies meeting the interests of civil society organizations and other civic initiatives or informal groups. This program area includes working with civil society organizations on public action training, CSOs and local self-government units through charter / advice or other forms of institutionalized co-operation, education for representatives of institutional authorities, monitoring of institutional mechanisms in the county of Istria, advocacy for good governance and participatory democracy, increased transparency, elimination of corruption and nepotism, educating citizens (with particular emphasis on young people) for taking an active role in society. We are working here independently and through the Civil Platform of Istria, which brings together civil society organizations and civil society initiatives in the field of human rights protection, democratization, the suppression of corruption and the protection of public resources, especially the environment, civil society development, child and youth care, culture and art and other areas of organized activity. A common vision is life in a county and a country where the rule of law under the principles of good governance (accountability, participation, predictability and transparency) is the basis of the work of individuals, institutions and politicians in which there is an empowered, active and responsible civil society and prevails participative political culture of responsible, solidarity and interested citizens. Within this area, the fourth year we are carrying out the project of Empowered Civil Society Organizations - CSOs and Active Citizens in the City of Poreč and through the project we want to strengthen civil society organizations for greater influence on political processes and decision-making, greater interest and public support, greater visibility and the credibility of CSOs, greater autonomy of CSOs, greater influence of the public on decision-making, continuous monitoring of the work of the institutions, increasing the transparency of the work of public institutions. When we talk about promotion and protection of women's human rights, we have set the focus in our work to combat violence against women, gender-based violence and the prevention of violence in work with youth, or violence in adolescent relationships. We work with high school students to teach them to recognize violent patterns of behavior in order to teach them how to react and what do to if they are in a violent relationship. Also, we have been doing a lot of work with them on human rights, discrimination and human rights of LGBT people. We are working to increase the visibility of LGBT people in Porec and Istria through fun-cultural events and organization of public actions. We are actively combating gender inequality and sexism, discrimination, advocating the right of women to decide themselves about their own body, we work on the advocacy capacities of the association people with disabilities, we are working on strengthening the Civil Platform of Istria, ...

CMS projects mainly focus on:
- Mediterranean heritage
- History of Mediterranean Medicine
for example:
-HISTORY OF MEDITERRANEAN MEDICINE – GIORGIO (ÐURO) BAGLIVI, International Seminar, Dubrovnik, CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES – DUBROVNIK, 28-30 giugno 2007, organized by: University of Zagreb; Centre for Mediterranean Studies – Dubrovnik; History of Medicine and Health Institute - University of Geneva; Medical School - University of Zagreb.
Commemorating the 300th anniversary of Giorgio (Ðuro) Baglivi death.
- Sephardic culture
- Maritime history and underwater archeology
- Language

Our activities are: 1. Direct work with clients, providing legal aid and counselling for social vulnerable groups 2. Monitoring of human rights conditions and legislation, and informing relevant institutions about cases of human rights violations and observed problems 3. Monitoring of war crime trials: publicity of trials and work of the courts 4. Advocacy for specific policies by: research, lobbying and campaigns for changes in legislation, organising round tables, and trainings 5. Development of mediation in school, in community and at courts 6. Education on nonviolence, conflict resolution, community mediation, peer mediation and organisational development for civil and public sectors 7. Cross-sector and inter-sector cooperation; Networking and cooperation with similar national and regional organisations 8. Promotion activities – active web site, publishing Culture of Peace magazine, info-leaflets, manuals, handbooks and other promotional material

We have three main programs through which we are developing various activities: - women and leadership, - equal opportunities in the labour market - prevention from gender based violence in adolescence relationship - various campaigns includin campaign for reproductive and sexual rights, for prevention of dating violence etc. - publishing and research - web portals: www.libela.org, www.sezamweb.net,www.ravnopravnost.cesi.hr